Thursday and Friday March 29 + 30, 2012 Blog Post
The graphic design class is progressing along slowly but surely. So far "Time is Funny" and "Lime is Money" are the only original slogans the students have come up with. Jamie said that they are used to getting text and designing with it, not having to come up with original text so its been a challenge for them. I've shown them plenty of images and ideas for inspiration but they've been a little slow getting going with it. Many of the ideas have been ones I've seen or heard before or could google and get a long list of things relating to or using it. That isn't what I'm going for with it. It's hard to teach irony or wittiness but have tried to push home those points. One student worked with the fortune cookie idea and put keep an eye out for opportunity with it. His original idea was "Open It" but somehow he went in the other direction. One girl did "Penguins Can Fly" another boy did "Please pick up your dog poop," one said "Lucky" another said "This billboard is pointless" and had a hand pointing to the word less to illustrate the word point. We hung up all the images and I put a post it note on it with the grade and my feedback. I discussed how some of the images had strong design while they might not have a strong slogan, and others who had the opposite, and explained that the real challenge is to have both working together to inform and strengthen one another. I had the students put post its on the person's word to the right of theirs and had them write feedback for that person. When we did the critique I gave my feedback and had the person who wrote feedback give theirs as well. Kelly introduced us to the idea of using post its to generate feedback and I think it worked well.
After we did that, I divided them into groups of three. They got images they DID NOT design and as a group had to pick their favorite design/slogan and think of how they'd redesign or change the slogan and make it their own. One group selected the penguin image, another selected a "Think Big" slogan, that did have probably the most well thought out design with all original photographs. The third group left struggling on Thursday so on Friday I had them join the two other groups.
Friday we laid out all the images and discussed the progress with Jeff, Jamie and I. We decided to try having some students who were struggling work with the Lime is Money and Time is Funny slogan. We discussed bringing in clocks and limes and money that the students could scan or photograph to begin working with original photographs.
So far their designs have all been saved into shared folders so they can use one another's imagery for redesigns. We left a little uninspired on Friday and thought about it over the weekend.
The storyboard class is still plugging along. Some people are finishing coloring them, so I am individually scanning them in or having them scan them in when they are done and showing them the next steps since everyone is at different stages with it.
My two most resistant students are Rachel and PJ both in 2nd period. PJ refused to work on the 6 x 6 and did something else in his sketch book the entire time. I asked him if he was going to do it and he said yes. Twenty minutes later I followed up with him and he told me it was a rough draft, geez. Rachel is working with another girl in class because she refuses to do the project on her own.
On Friday, I took one day to have them work on a 6 x 6 for the show in Rochester called 6 x 6. Anyone can submit and all are accepted just has to be 6 x 6 inches. So I'm having all my students do it and participate. It's a fundraiser for the museum. It seems many of them haven't had an art show before so its a good experience. They sell for $20 and it goes to the museum. Their images go online and show a red dot when they sell or are sold. So I took a day on Friday to have everyone do that and complete it on Monday.
The latex class I had complete their 6 x 6 tests on Friday and told them on Monday we'd be doing something new.
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